Keith Calder series by Gerald Hammond (#5-9)
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Overview: Born in 1926, Gerald Hammond lived in Scotland, where he retired from his profession as an architect in 1982 to pursue his love of shooting and fishing and to write full time. After his first novel, Fred in Situ, was published in 1965, Gerald became a prolific author with over 70 published novels. Most of his novels were published under his own name, but he also wrote under the pseudonyms Arthur Douglas and Dalby Holden.
Genre: Mystery Thriller
The Game (#5) Keith Calder, the engaging rogue who has appeared in Gerald Hammond’s previous novels, is in his element in this new adventure.
Millmont House, not far from Edinburgh, is the headquarters of a group of companies under the name of Personal Service, and Millmont House offers the oldest service – it is a high class and very expensive brothel. In one of its luxury apartments there is substantial evidence that a murder has been committed and it is clear that an antique pistol was the weapon.
But there is no body, in fact no clue as to who might have been killed, never mind who was the murderer. Into this discreet, wealthy atmosphere comes Keith to privately investigate the crime and, with little finesse but with great promptitude, he manages to establish who is dead. He also disturbs a hornets nest of local government corruption and blackmail.
Cousin Once Removed (#6) Keith Calder returns home from a tour of France with a deep tan, a disenchanted wife, a profitable deal in duty-free and an accumulation of vintage guns – including a pair of duelling pistols found in a bricked-up barn.
He is not long home when it becomes clear that some item in the collection has aroused fierce competition. Not only is he made a tempting but unspecific offer by a titled politician, but an attempt is made on his life and he would have bled to death but for the despatch of an ambulance to his aid, apparently by his assailants.
Not the man to wait on events, Keith sets himself a programme of convalescence and confrontation.
The results, in the best Calder tradition, are devious, shocking and spectacular. They include a humiliating incident on a grouse moor, attempted robbery, a hundred and fifty-year-old duelling scandal and contemporary greed and corruption.
Sauce For the Pigeon (#7) A burnt out land rover is found with a body in the driver’s seat, and over two dozen dead woodpigeons nearby…
Inspector Munro, needing expert help with the forensic evidence, swallows his natural distrust of Keith Calder and asks him to assist the Police. But Calder’s enthusiasm to help rapidly turns to dismay when he realises his findings point to the involvement of his inventor-storekeeper friend, Jake Paterson.
Jake had been sleeping with the victim’s wife and, with Edinburgh’s Chief Inspector Russell holding a long-standing grudge against him, there’s a swift arrest and murder charge.
But something doesn’t add up for Calder.
Can he discover the truth to save his friend and bring the true murderer to justice?
Pursuit of Arms (#8) Keith Calder struck a deal with Eddie Adoni for the overhaul of a load of Sterlings and Brownings, although he knew that Eddie’s reputation as an arms dealer was mixed. But the lorry transporting the guns was hijacked outside Keith’s workshop, leaving two men dead.
Keith, aided by his brother-in-law and surreptitiously by Superintendent Munro, begins his own search — a quest which becomes urgent when a member of his family is kidnapped by the hijackers.
Silver City Scandal (#9) The silver city is Aberdeen, capital of the North Sea oil industry, and it is here that Keith Calder is summoned to give evidence in the trial of Hugh Donald for murder…
Keith’s ballistic evidence proves unexpected and the result is that peculiarly Scottish verdict – Not Proven.
But ‘Not Proven’ is a long way from ‘Not Guilty’. Hugh Donald is employed by one of the giants in the oil industry. His position, in which he holds the financial power to make or break contractors, is one which demands trust. Hugh Donald and his employers are jointly determined that his name must be cleared.
Donald and his solicitor, Jeremy Prather, persuade Keith to reinvestigate in the hope of finding the real killer. The evidence is months old, but they have two starting points: the substitution of another gun in place of the murder weapon and the conviction that the motive is connected to Donald’s working life.
Will they be able to unravel the crime?
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